Swimming at the 2010 South Asian Games

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at the 2010 South Asian Games
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The swimming competition at the 2010 South Asian Games held in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Results

Men's events

EventGoldSilverBronze
50 m freestyle Flag of India.svg Virdhawal Vikram Khade 23.73 Flag of India.svg Aaron Agnel D'souza 24.42 Flag of Bangladesh.svg Mohammad Mahfizur Rahman 24.53
100 m freestyle Flag of India.svg Aaron Agnel D'souza 52.48 Flag of Bangladesh.svg Mohammad Mahfizur Rahman 52.85 Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Heshan Bandara Unamboowe 54.23
400 m freestyle Flag of India.svg Adaveeshiah Puttaveeraswamy Gagan Ullalmath 4:04.85 Flag of India.svg Mandar Divase 4:07.41 Flag of Pakistan.svg Israr Hussain 4:25.85
50 m backstroke Flag of India.svg Balakrishnan Melkote Badarinath 27.63 Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Heshan Bandara Unamboowe 27.93 Flag of India.svg Rohit Tajendra Havaldar 28.35
100 m backstroke Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Heshan Bandara Unamboowe 58.98 Flag of India.svg Balakrishnan Melkote Badarinath 59.08 Flag of Bangladesh.svg Mohammad Rubel Rana 1:02.65
50 m breaststroke Flag of India.svg Arjun Jaya Prakash 30.04 Flag of Bangladesh.svg Mohammad Shahajahan Ali Rony 31.04 Flag of Bangladesh.svg Mohammad Kamal Hossain 31.05
100 m breaststroke Flag of India.svg Sandeep Sejwal 1:05.01 Flag of India.svg Puneet Rana 1:06.74 Flag of Bangladesh.svg Mohammad Kamal Hossain 1:07.32
200 m breaststroke Flag of India.svg Sandeep Sejwal 2:21.03 Flag of Bangladesh.svg Mohammad Kamal Hossain 2:27.54 Flag of India.svg Anoop Augustine 2:29.99
50 m butterfly Flag of India.svg Virdhawal Vikram Khade 25.54 Flag of India.svg Arjun Muralidharan 26.15 Flag of Bangladesh.svg Mohammad Anik Islam 26.61
100 m butterfly Flag of India.svg Arjun Muralidharan 56.86 Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Conrad Anthony Francis 58.44 Flag of Bangladesh.svg Mohammad Jewel Ahmad 58.90
200 m individual medley Flag of India.svg Rehan Jehangir Poncha 2:12.65 Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Heshan Bandara Unamboowe 2:13.08 Flag of Bangladesh.svg Mohammad Rubel Rana 2:19.03
4×100 m medley relay Flag of India.svg India 3:58.76 Flag of Bangladesh.svg Bangladesh 4:00.39 Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Sri Lanka 4:07.04

Women's events

EventGoldSilverBronze
50 m freestyle Flag of India.svg Shubha Chittaranjan 27.98 Flag of India.svg Sneha Thirugnana Sambandam 28.67 Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Madhawee Kaushalya Kalurachchilage Don 29.78
50 m backstroke Flag of India.svg Fariha Zaman 33.00 Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Walakanda Kankanamge Gihara Sachini Amaradinghe 34.56 Flag of Pakistan.svg Kiran Khan 34.89
50 m breaststroke Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Minekasashmini Natasha Karunarathe 35.12 Flag of Bangladesh.svg Mahfuza Khatun 35.43 Flag of Bangladesh.svg Doli Akhter 36.59
100 m breaststroke Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Minekasashmini Natasha Karunarathe Flag of Bangladesh.svg Mahfuza Khatun Flag of Bangladesh.svg Doli Akhter
50 m butterfly Flag of India.svg Shubha Chittaranjan 29.44 Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Miniruwani Shashiprabha Samarakoon 32.12 Flag of Pakistan.svg Kiran Khan 32.18
100 m butterfly Flag of India.svg Richa Mishra 1:05.74 Flag of India.svg Vandita Dhariyal 1:08.40 Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Miniruwani Shashiprabha Samarakoon 1:10.38
4×100 m medley relay Flag of India.svg India 4:41.45 Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Sri Lanka 4:52.24 Flag of Bangladesh.svg Bangladesh 4:55.94

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